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Jairam Ramesh
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‘The Light of Asia’: Jairam Ramesh’s new book is a biography of an epic bio-poem on the Buddha
An excerpt from ‘The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined The Buddha’, by Jairam Ramesh.
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July 19, 1969: Fifty years ago, India nationalised 14 private banks. This is how it was done
Jairam Ramesh’s biography of PN Haksar, who masterminded the nationalisation of banks announced by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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Jairam Ramesh: Lessons from reorganising India's states – and why Uttar Pradesh needs to be divided
India needs a second States Reorganisation Commission. And it needs to split up its most populous state into smaller, manageable states.
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Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?
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Indira Gandhi’s conscience keeper? ‘I could not become a ‘keeper’ of something which did not exist’
Extracts from a new biography of the former prime minister’s close aide, PN Haksar, who has been called her ‘moral and ideological compass from 1967 to 1972’.
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Behind the scenes at the Copenhagen, Cancun climate talks: How India helped ease the path to Paris
Jairam Ramesh explains.
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‘The Planning Commission did not keep India poor. It actually kept India together’: Jairam Ramesh
‘The gap between India and China widened astronomically not during the planning era but actually during the market reforms era.’
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Video
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Eco India, Episode 258: Is repurposing waste saving the environment from further degradation?
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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India’s so-called demographic dividend could easily end up becoming a nightmare: Jairam Ramesh
As India prepares to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by the year 2024, it faces age-old problems.
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How Indira Gandhi dealt with the demand for a national law to ban cow slaughter (and other stories)
She refused permission to DLF for a hotel in Lutyens’ Delhi and then allowed it to the Tatas. And she sanctioned contentious dams on the Narmada.
Jairam Ramesh
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PN Haksar: The man who was Indira Gandhi's alter ego at the peak of her glory
She was almost in awe of the man with whom she enjoyed an unusually warm personal relationship – her daily moral and ideological compass from 1967 to 1972.
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The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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How Telangana and Seemandhra fought for Hyderabad (and how the battle was won)
Book excerpt: Jairam Ramesh, who was closely involved with the bifurcation, recounts the tussle for the capital.
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Narasimha Rao, the Sanskritist Prime Minister
As India embarked on its economic reforms, the Prime Minister stumped Parliament with his frequent use of Sanskrit.
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